Category: stay-at-home mom

One of My Best Stitch Fix Boxes Ever I Kept it All!!

clothes, fashion, stay-at-home mom
Stitch Fix Review for summer 2020

***This post contains affiliate links. I do earn advertising fees when you order through Stitch Fix after clicking on these links. All opinions are my own.*** This was probably my tenth or so Stitch Fix box, and shorty shorts aside, this box was an exciting hit. This box had two adorable tops, two dresses that fit perfectly, and a terrible pair of Daisy Dukes. Since Alan was working from home on Friday, he was able to take photos for me. […]

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Lockdown Week 11: National Uproar, Alan at the Office, and My Next Ebook

4 kids, Army Wives, joy, stay-at-home mom, stress
Lockdown Week 11: National Uproar, Alan at the Office, and My Next Ebook

So how is everyone’s lock down going? Still feeling okay out there, in your own home? I noticed that some of my Alabama friends went back to church this Sunday. I was like, “Say whaaa?” I can’t even imagine that yet here in Maryland. Because we move so much, my Facebook newsfeed represents people from all over the country, but mostly the South, the D.C. area, and California/Washington state. I am always surprised at how different life is in different […]

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5 Cool Things I Found on the Internet this Week

4 kids, Army Wives, parenting, stay-at-home mom
5 Cool Things I Found on the Internet this Week

One of your duties as a blogger is to read other blogs. There are many reasons for this. It makes you a better writer, builds your online community, and also you learn things. At least one day per week, I take an extended stroll around the internet visiting my favorite blogs, and I try to regularly visit new ones as well. This week I found such cool stuff, I just had to share with my own blog readers. Usually I […]

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15 Fun and Simple Games to Start Your School Day

4 kids, attitude, big family life, home school, homeschool, stay-at-home mom
15 Fun and Simple Games to Start Your School day

When this whole crisis home school fiasco started, John David, our resident first grader, sat down beside me and laid out exactly how his school day usually goes. He fully expected our distance learning day to mirror the way things run at regular school. Oh, boy, was he set up for disappointment or what? However, this did give me good ideas. This year John David has a teacher who makes school very fun, so she is someone I should be […]

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Lock Down Week 8: Holding on to Hope

stay-at-home mom

***This website contains Amazon affiliate links. When you purchase through these links, I do collect a advertising fees.*** Week eight was calmer for us, but also we were tired. We are ready to be done with home school, but instead Maryland announced this week that they are extending school until June 16th. Boo fun. The boys seemed to have less energy to do their school work, and I definitely had less energy to drive them on. At least I wan’t […]

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Weeks 6 and 7: Sometimes I am not okay.

4 kids, big family life, stay-at-home mom
Sometimes I am not okay.

Tuesday, April 21 (Week 6) The Mostly Happy Week I am taking a break upstairs, listening to Alan’s surprised voice downstairs saying, “Y’all already ate that sherbet!!??” It truly is eat or be eaten around here. Food has a short shelf life. School is going better though! Therefore, my stress level has decreased. Monday all the boys’ work was due to be turned in by 12pm, and we had most of it turned in on Friday afternoon. New assignments were […]

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Quarantine Week 5, Computer School Week 1: It’s like patience training.

4 kids, home school, stay-at-home mom, stress
Quarantine Week 5, Computer School Week 1: It's like patience training.

This past week I stopped every few days to jot down a paragraph or two of how quarantine was going for us. I had no idea it was going to be such a challenging week, thanks to the addition of virtual schooling. Our school only involves a little of the classroom videos. It is mostly, “Go to this website, click on the list, click on the links, do the problems. Take the quiz at the end. Create a brochure about […]

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Quarantine Family Home Tour

4 kids, funny stories, photography, stay-at-home mom
Quarantine Family Home Tour

Normally on this blog, I tend to visit new places and post photos of them. I also go house hunting every 1-3 years, since I am a military wife, that has been our lot. Since nowadays we, like everyone else in the world, stay home all the time, I thought I would give you a tour of my house instead, or at least the interesting parts of my house. I am officially not allowed to show you the boys’ rooms. […]

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Into the Unknown: Virtual School Nerves and Anxiety

4 kids, Bible verses, big family life, faith, family, God, home school, homeschool, school, stay-at-home mom
into the unknown: virtual school nerves and anxiety

Is anyone else feeling nervous about their kids beginning virtual school? I feel like this is an issue that parents across the entire world are dealing with. We have been out of school for the sheltering-in-place or quarantine or social distancing, whatever you want to call it, for a month now. Seriously. An entire month has passed. During that month, we here in Maryland were given home-school packets of suggested work. Thankfully, they gave us all the benefit of the […]

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15 Helpful Websites and Apps for Your Quarantine Home School

home school, homeschool, stay-at-home mom

I still cannot believe we are doing this whole quarantine home school thing, but hey, we are all in this together. Right? From reading texts from friends and my modern-day gossip column (Facebook), I gather that some schools provided solid plans for students who are at home while others did not. We live in Maryland. Our teachers were given less than 24 hours of notice before schools shut down. Therefore, they cannot guarantee that all children have internet access at […]

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